Windscheffel v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 1991 · most notably Frame, Administrator v. Bauman (1969), In Re Estate of Zimmerman (1971)
2 district · 32 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Antoine Michoud v. Peronne Bernardine Girod · Staab v. Staab · Lindholm v. Nelson · Frazier v. Jeakins · In Re Estate of Weaver
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A life tenant with power to sell real property devised to her for life with remainder to designated persons, is a trustee or quasi trustee and occupies a fiduciary relation to the remaindermen, and in the exercise of that power, she owes to them die highest duty to act honestly and in good faith by selling the property to a bona fide purchaser for the best price offered.” (Syl. ¶ 3.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stump v. Flint · Noel v. Noel
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.